Constitution of the United States

Bibliography

Books

• Beard, Charles Austin. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. New York: Macmillan, 1913.
• Bodenhamer, David J. The U.S. Constitution: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
• Bowen, Catherine Drinker. Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787. Boston: Little, Brown, 1966.
• Collier, Christopher, and James Lincoln Collier. Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787. New York: Random House, Reader's Digest, 1986.
• Conley, Patrick T., and John P. Kaminski, eds. The Constitution and the States: The Role of the Original Thirteen in the Framing and Adoption of the Federal Constitution. Madison, Wis.: Madison House, 1988.
• Elkins, Stanley, and Eric McKitrick. The Age of Federalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Farrand, Max. The Framing of the Constitution of the United States. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1913.
• Gillespie, Michael Allen, and Michael Lienesch, eds. Ratifying the Constitution. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1989.
• Jensen, Merrill. The Making of the American Constitution. Princeton, N.J.: Van Nostrand, 1964.
• Levy, Leonard W. Original Intent and the Framers' Constitution. New York: Macmillan, 1988.
• Main, Jackson Turner. The Antifederalists: Critics of the Constitution, 1781–1788. Williamsburg, Va.: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.
• McGuire, Robert A. To Form a More Perfect Union: A New Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2003.
• Monk, Linda R. The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution. New York: Hyperion, 2003.
• Raphael, Ray. The U.S. Constitution: Explained—Clause by Clause—for Every American Today. New York: Vintage, 2017.
• Rossiter, Clinton. 1787: The Grand Convention. New York: Macmillan, 1966.
• Rutland, Robert Allen. The Ordeal of the Constitution: The Antifederalists and the Ratification Struggle of 1787–1788. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966.
• Van Doren, Carl. The Great Rehearsal: The Story of the Making and Ratifying of the Constitution of the United States. New York: Viking Press, 1948.
• Wehle, Kim. How to Read the Constitution—and Why. New York: HarperCollins, 2019.

Web sites

• “Constitution of the United States.” National Archives “Charters of Freedom” Web site. http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution.html. Accessed on October 5, 2007.
• “The Federalist Papers.” Founding Fathers.info Web site. http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/. Accessed on January 25, 2008.
• “United States Constitution.” Library of Congress “Primary Documents in American History” Web site. http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Constitution.html. Accessed on October 5, 2007.